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Tomahawk (1867-1870), 2nd January 1870, Edition 1 of 1, Front matter, Page unpag

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      Resting For A Moment In The Summer Sunli...

      Resting for a moment in the Summer sunlight , beside the banks of green trees , near the trinkling streamlets , with singing in the bushes , the thick and leafy bushes , the Great Chief , yes , the Great Chief , rests awhile . He is very tired and weary of fighting that great fight , of fighting that good fight against the World of Sin . For the World it is no better , and Sin it is so much greater than ever in the old time , the wild and wicked old time , the time that ' s gone before . For the classes of the people , the classes that are three-fold , are cruel as the whirl-pool , are wicked to the core , so TOMAHAWK , the great one , TOMAHAWK , the brave one , gently doffs his war-paint ; this Chief of many battles , his war-knife too he loosens , and restcth on the stream . For his heart is very saddened , his eyes too , yes , are mournful , for he thinketh of the deadthe dead so great and mighty , the dead so soon departed , the dead so good and ,

      noly . He seeth as he resteth the shades of those dear ones , those great and well-loved dear ones , they who ' ve gone before . Dickens , mighty Dickens , writer great and godly , hater of the wicked , scorner of the foolish , friendly to the widow , careful of the orphan , perfect writer , perfect man . And he listeneth to more things , things written by the " daily ' s , " the very gushing ' - ' daily ' s / ' who gush about the great ones with a taste that is not seeml }* -, a taste both coarse and vulgar . For the " daily ' s" cost a penny , a small and dirty penny , for what is cheap is nasty , very cheap and nasty ; so thus they gush and pander , and revel in the bosh-words , the wild and puzzling

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 2, 1870, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/fttw_02011870/page/3/